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Well titan does cost 1000$ per card, so... :) There was a good article at Anandtech's about Rendering & Calculations : http://www.anandtech.com/show/6808/westmereep-to-sandy-bridgeep-the-scientist-potential-upgrade/6 While the numbers don't apply directly to your case, they do provide a...

I think the biggest problem with making a "perfect SG05" would be the motherboard's CPU location. The CPU needs to be "in the middle" and not "in the back side" but... you run into GPU positioning issues... Honestly what i'd like would be : Take a SG05 and move the MB so that the beginning of...

Also D14 will not fit in many cases (let's not even talk about mini-itx) while a watercooled SG05 is real.

This test is kindabiased, high for texture/physics/clutter ? Seriously. Still it proves my point a 500$ gaming laptop is viable and Trinity will do it. With 1366x768 you'll probably get 40-50ish FPS with Trinity on D3, instant sale ! Exactly my point 500$ Trinity will probably beat 500$ Ivy...

You have two choices : 4+4 (S1155) or 6+6 (S2011) even 8+8 would be overkill (not to say stupidly expensive) going dual CPU is probably even worse. Since you were talking about Dual Xeon is assume money is not an issue... Before spending : 1° Check the memory usage of Arma2 2° Check the CPU...

Sims, World of Warcraft, BF3, Diablo3, Madden, NBA Live, Left 4 Dead, these are the gamers AMD is aiming at. Games that you can see "on the news" and "advertised in bus/train stops" Get a 500$ laptop from Mom/Grandma for birthday/high-school/college and game on it. There is a reason...

It would be impossible and unreasonable to expect Trinity to beat (or even come close) SB/IB in IPC... Intel is just too far ahead. With Trinity AMD is asking "Do you want a faster PC or better graphics ?" Also they might be cheaper (which is a huge deal) if they charge less for the chipset...

OK i did go a bit overboard :) But the figures aren't that far off : http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/jun/06/idc-pc-sales-growth-warns In 2011 200Million Laptops, 150Million Desktops.... assuming 60% of these were Intels. We get 120Million Intel Laptops, 90 Million Intel Desktops...

Trackr wanted +20% increase in IPC (or its not worth releasing) with a -50% Consumption (less would be marginal).... Talk about deluded... We have a faster CPU (+5%) that uses less power (-15%) with a better GPU (+30%) for 10$ less. It does run hotter (from +5 to +8° at Stock) and does OC a lot...

Not really. Reclaiming stock is done purely for "self control" : any BIG decisions made by apple has to be accepted by a minimum of X% of the stockholders. Having 10% (probably even more than that) of your own stock will easily make/break a deal. Yahoo's "NO" to Microsoft was a perfect example...

Flexraid runs "above the OS" you have 2 ways to run it : A) Pure Parity B) RealTimeRaid PureParity is simple, it calculates parity on "another drive" : Drive1 : Files A B C D Drive2 : Files E F G H Drive3 : Files I J K L Drive4 : Files M N O P DriveP : Parity 0101 Basically you MANUALLY...

You're probably still better off installing FlexRaid. MS solution would be perfect IF (and its a big IF) they did not strip data. Raid5/6 in for business makes sense (since there will be a 24/7 monitoring, hot spares, etc etc). But for a Home usage ? lose 1 drive, be careless= lose everything.

I dream of the day we'll get a FreeNAS that will have a 1 disk Parity function in ZFS (for obvious data integrity). Unraid/Flexraid are by far the best options out there for "Multimedia Data Storage". I understand why MS did this and its awesome.. but... STRIPED DATA ? seriously.... All they...

Well it looked amazing until you read this : So basically it's just tweaked Raid3/4 & Raid5/6 nothing more, which does absolutely nothing to protect users against the glaring flaw of "one too many" failures. Sure having "50Virtual TB" and "Add disks as you go" and "One directory to rule them...

I'd kill for something like this : But in Mini-ITX and with the GPU parallel to the MB actually with the GPU & Motherboard PCB back to back (touching) via http://linitx.com/product/10881 and a 1U PSU.